U+98B3 "颳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

颳

U+98B3 "颳" CJK Unified Ideograph is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to blow" as in wind, specifically referring to a gust of wind striking or sweeping across something. It is composed of the radical for "wind" (風) on the left side, which provides the semantic clue, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation as "gua" in Mandarin. Unlike its simplified counterpart "刮," which can also mean "to scrape" or "to shave," the character "颳" is used almost exclusively in contexts involving wind or air movement, such as in the phrase "颳風" (guāfēng) meaning "the wind blows." This distinction preserves the character's specialized meaning in traditional writing systems, particularly in regions like Taiwan and Hong Kong, where traditional characters remain in standard use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98B3
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	颳
HTML Hex Encoding	颳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98B3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098B3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98b3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	BE68
kCCCII	21605E
kCNS1986	1-6F71
kCNS1992	1-6F71
kCangjie	HNHJR
kCantonese	gwaat3
kCihaiT	1486.605
kDaeJaweon	1934.120
kDefinition	to blow
kEACC	21605E
kFenn	707A
kFennIndex	263.05
kFourCornerCode	7221.6
kGB1	8823
kHanYu	74484.170
kHanyuPinyin	74484.170:guā,jǐ
kHKGlyph	4531
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1934.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74484.170
kIRGKangXi	1412.320
kIRG_GSource	G1-7837
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BE68
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-028305
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-87A4
kIRG_KSource	K2-6D75
kIRG_TSource	T1-6F71
kJapanese	カツカチ
kJapaneseOn	KATSU
kKangXi	1412.320
kKorean	KWAL
kMandarin	guā
kMatthews	3523
kMojiJoho	MJ028305
kMorohashi	43825
kPhonetic	736
kRSUnicode	182.6
kSimplifiedVariant	"刮" U+522E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	777.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	guā粵gwaat3
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	264:140
kXHC1983	0402.131:guā